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Roads," except so far as said relates to Somerset
County, be, and the same is hereby repealed, and
the following Sections enacted in lieu thereof.
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Sec. 2. And be it enacted, That the County Com-
missioners of the several counties shall have the
power to sub-divide each or any of the election
districts of their respective counties into road dis-
tricts, and to appoint a supervisor for each of the
said road districts.
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Sub-divide.
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Sec. 3. And be it enacted , That every male in-
habitant above twenty-one years of age, and pos-
sessing taxable property, assessed at five hundred
dollars or upwards, and every other male inhabit-
ant between the ages of twenty-one and fifty years,
not residing within the limits of an incorporated
town, who shall have resided in any one of the
counties to which this Act applies, for one month
next preceding the date when his services may be
demanded, shall be required to labor two days, in
every year, on the public roads, in the road dis-
trict in which he may reside, and the road super-
visor, whenever the public roads shall need re-
pairs, shall summon all such persons in his road
district, or such number of them as he may deem
necessary to make such repairs, provided that he
shall not summon the same party twice, until he
shall have exhausted the whole number liable to
such duty in his road district, giving at least two
days' notice of the time and place of meeting ; pro-
vided, however, that no person shall be compelled
to labor more than four miles from his place of
residence, and the authorities of the incorporated
towns within the limits of any county to which
this Act applies, shall keep the public roads in
good condition and repair, to the distance of one
mile from their respective incorporated limits, and
to enable them to accomplish the same, they are
hereby authorized to accept and apply the pro-
visions of this Act to persons residing within the
limits of their respective corporations.
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Labor two
days.
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Sec. 4. And be it enacted, That if any person
not possessing taxable property assessed at five
hundred dollars or upwards, from whom such labor
on the public roads may be required, under the
provisions of the preceding Section, shall make it
satisfactorily appear to the road supervisors of the
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Physically
disabled.
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